Abstract:
:Infection with Mycobacterium kansasii in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome usually involves the lung or disseminated infection. We report a case of infection with M kansasii confined to the adrenal gland and possibly to an adjacent vertebral body that presented as a fever of undetermined origin.
journal_name
South Med Jjournal_title
Southern medical journalauthors
Cook PP,Christie Jdoi
10.1097/00007611-199810000-00019subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-10-01 00:00:00pages
981-2issue
10eissn
0038-4348issn
1541-8243journal_volume
91pub_type
杂志文章abstract::An 86-year-old man presented with sudden onset of dyspnea during hospitalization. Initial electrocardiography (ECG) showed poor R-wave progression of precordial leads with elevation of troponin I. Tension pneumothorax was subsequently diagnosed and the ECG returned to normal after resolution of clinical compromise. ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181aeda06
更新日期:2009-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have described a patient who died of disseminated strongyloidiasis as a result of steroid therapy, despite an extensive diagnostic evaluation in the face of eosinophilia, but before any immunosuppressive therapy. This death might have been prevented by presumptive treatment after work-up but before immunosuppressiv...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198311000-00030
更新日期:1983-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although it is common in the adult population, sigmoid volvulus is unusual in childhood. We report the cases of four children treated for sigmoid volvulus, and we review an additional 44 cases. The mean age of occurrence was 8 years. Predisposing factors were present in 33%. Abdominal pain (66%), vomiting (31%), and o...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00007611-199007000-00015
更新日期:1990-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Anorexia nervosa has been associated with various hematologic and immunologic abnormalities, including characteristic bone marrow changes, red cell acanthocytosis, leukopenia, complement deficiencies, and defective bactericidal activity of granulocytes. Dietary and psychogenic factors may play a role in these abnormal...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00007611-198308000-00018
更新日期:1983-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::We compared a "cardiac profile" test with standard creatine kinase (CK) and lactic dehydrogenase (LD) electrophoresis in 798 cases of possible acute myocardial infarction (MI). The cardiac profile enzyme screen (CK-B, CK, LD) used on 495 patients who came to the emergency department with chest pain suggestive of acute...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1989-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::A case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in a 10-year-old boy accompanied by an unusually high degree of myalgia and muscle weakness was presented. On admission to the hospital, his creatine phosphokinase, SGOT, SGPT, and aldolase values were all abnormally high. Rash did not appear until the fourth hospital day. On the...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197812000-00037
更新日期:1978-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Improving diabetes and blood pressure control decreases the incidence and progression of microvascular disease. Likewise, screening for microvascular complications is beneficial in the early detection and treatment of these disorders. However, adherence to practice guidelines for screening and treatment in p...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.SMJ.0000140853.71806.31
更新日期:2004-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::To our knowledge, this is the first known case of a patient with leptospirosis and very elevated CSF, which caused hydrocephalus. ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181a0ae80
更新日期:2009-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 46-year-old woman had features of acute pulmonary edema soon after taking hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) for the first time. Although 31 cases of HCTZ-induced pulmonary edema have been reported in the world literature since it was first described in 1968, little is known about this clinical entity. Because its presence ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199911000-00013
更新日期:1999-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The range of procedures now routinely done through the laparoscope has continued to expand due to improved equipment for insufflation, hemostasis, and tissue manipulation, and to imaginative approaches to otherwise "routine" gynecologic problems traditionally treated by laparotomy. As with all new technologies, advoca...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199306000-00005
更新日期:1993-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Patient comfort is an important part of laceration repair. METHODS:The study was a randomized single-blind cross-over trial in which each participant received 250 ml warmed and 250 ml room temperature saline irrigation in simple linear wounds after a local anesthetic was instilled. The solutions and the ord...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/01.SMJ.0000056657.63336.6C
更新日期:2003-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The vast majority of acute iron toxicity cases occur in children less than 5 years of age. Moreover, clinical hepatic injury is uncommon with most symptoms stemming from the intestinal tract (eg, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea). Therefore, physicians, particularly those who do not routinely treat pediatric patients, are o...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.SMJ.0000152546.05519.FE
更新日期:2005-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Most patients with intestinal obstruction have had previous surgery. Rarely, the development of adhesions and resulting small bowel obstruction is attributed to previous intra-abdominal trauma. We present the case of a young man, without a history of surgery, who had been a restrained driver in a motor vehicle crash. ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2001-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Three patients seen recently at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center emphasize the point that coccidioidomycosis may resemble lymphoma because of persistence of adenopathy on the chest roentgenogram after the initial infiltrate has resolved. Such a clinical picture strongly indicates dissemination and is probably sufficie...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197705000-00007
更新日期:1977-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have described two cases of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma, characterized by sedimentation level seen on unenhanced cerebral CT, in patients receiving anticoagulation therapy. Anticoagulation or coagulopathy may be important in producing sedimentation levels. The "sedimentation level" is a more accurate term th...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199310000-00020
更新日期:1993-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cobalamin (vitamin B12) deficiency warrants appropriate evaluation because cobalamin is necessary in certain biochemical functions. R-binder deficiency, which causes low cobalamin levels, is a rare and benign pseudodeficiency. If not further evaluated by determining levels of methylmalonic acid and homocysteine, howev...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although recent increases in the incidence of syphilis are well known to public health officials, the general medical community is less well informed regarding the dramatic rise in cases. We present trend data from Nashville and Tennessee over the past decade. These statistics emphasize specific factors, such as drug ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199208000-00002
更新日期:1992-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has engendered a crisis of fear among the public and health professionals alike. In addition to the myriad anxieties that generally accompany dying and death, AIDS patients must deal with numerous additional fears. In rushing to treat the physiologic aspects of AIDS, health pr...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198702000-00022
更新日期:1987-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Most congenital heart anomalies now can be surgically corrected in a neonate or very young infant. Because their hearts are so small, it is advantageous to work in a bloodless and motionless operative field. Deep hypothermia with circulatory arrest provides this setting. Physiologic problems associated with hypothermi...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197605000-00038
更新日期:1976-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Medical inpatients in inner-city hospitals have both potentially lead-related disorders and potential lead exposure. To see whether there is substantial unexpected lead intoxication in this population, we did a cross-sectional study of 117 consecutively admitted patients to a general medical ward of an inner-city univ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199605000-00003
更新日期:1996-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Hepatitis secondary to infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the most common causes of viral hepatitis worldwide. Multiple extrahepatic manifestations of HCV infection have been recognized. Dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with HCV infection have been recently described in th...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31822462e2
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Presented is a well-documented, autochthonous case of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, a protozoan disease endemic to Asia, Africa, Southern Europe, South America, and Central America, which until recently was not found in North America. Diagnosis is made by positive culture on NNN media, positive serodiagnosis, positive ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197702000-00041
更新日期:1977-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Rapid loss of erythrocyte galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase in hemolysates from an infant 26 days after transfusion led to investigation of the possiblity of an unstable enzyme or other variant of galactosemia. However, the child was found to have the classic type of galactosemia. The seeming transferase instab...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197503000-00010
更新日期:1975-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To determine the documentation frequency of informed consent for women undergoing a trial of nonemergent instrumental delivery. STUDY DESIGN:A retrospective chart review of instrumented vaginal deliveries from 1992 to 2005 was performed. Cases were identified from a Labor and Delivery database and hospital ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.smj.0000243076.86803.09
更新日期:2006-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The diagnoses of complete obstruction in a duplicated renal collecting system and ureterocele can be made with a high degree of confidence by ultrasound. Two children presenting with abdominal masses were examined by gray scale ultrasonography which demonstrated large cystic masses dorsal to and displacing the lower p...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198008000-00018
更新日期:1980-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Thoracic splenosis is rare, with fewer than two dozen reported cases. Patients uniformly have a history of splenectomy with combined abdominal and thoracic trauma. Clinical signs and symptoms are usually absent, and the condition is most often discovered on routine chest radiography. The interval between trauma and cl...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-199811000-00013
更新日期:1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::We reviewed 76 cases of small cell bronchogenic carcinoma seen at the University of South Florida Medical Center. One third of the 55 patients who have subsequently died did so within one month of diagnosis. Thirty-five patients were treated with cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, vincristine, and radiation therapy includi...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197805000-00013
更新日期:1978-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::This review assessed the overall effectiveness of repeated treatments with botulinum toxin type A (BoNTA) across different conditions, as documented in the published literature. Forty-four original research articles reporting on 16 different conditions were identified that included data on the duration or efficacy of ...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.smj.0000220888.88722.ab
更新日期:2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have described a young man who had acute myocardial infarction after his first use of cocaine. This case demonstrates that potentially lethal myocardial infarctions may be associated with such initial "experimentation" with cocaine even in relatively small doses. Cocaine intoxication should be considered in young p...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198707000-00035
更新日期:1987-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Reported is the fifth known case of Addison's disease due to adrenal involvement by North American blastomycosis (Blastomyces dermatitidis infection). The fact that amphotericin B therapy precipitated an addisonian crisis suggests that patients with disseminated blastomycosis should have their adrenal function and res...
journal_title:Southern medical journal
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-197707000-00028
更新日期:1977-07-01 00:00:00